First things first, a reduction of all scholarships to 0 provides no inherent bias for one gender or the other, and may even level the playing field at schools with a men's D1 team but not a corresponding women's team (or vice versa), so it satisfies Title IX with flying colors.

Now onto the rest of the rant....

Gimme a break Larry. You're comparing college athletics to the civil rights movement and the war in Iraq.

And you still haven't said on what grounds Colgate or anyone could sue the Ivy League or any other athletic cnference. You've given your emotional justification for it, but you haven't stated on what grounds it would work in a court of law. As I said before, freedom of association still applies. The boy scouts can ban gays, Augusta National can ban women, and there's nothing anyone can do in the legal system to force them to change. And yes, there could even be a private club than allows only WASP's in, if they so chose. And I don't see how Colgate being in the well-respected Patriot League with schools like Army and Navy hurts their reputaiton. And somehow not being in the Ivy League doesn't hurt Berkley, or Stanford, or Duke, or MIT, or U of Chicago. So why does it hurt Colgate or RPI, as you say?

I guess I should be flattered you think the Ivy League is so important that schools would be suing to get in, but let's show some other preposterous examples. Colorado St. sues the Big XII for restraint of trade to get into that conference. Southern Florida sues to be allowed into the SEC. The Lincoln Saltdogs of the independent Northern League sues MLB to become the 31st team. Where does it end, Larry?